FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Garrett Cooper]

[snip]

> For starters, what would be much more appreciated is for devs to be
> much more involved from the start once someone does submit the patch.
> I appreciate that people a fallible and from time to time are bound to
> forget that they have a PR with a patch assigned to them, but there's
> no reason why the PR handling system can't email reminders...

GNATS already emails periodic reminders to bug owners (be the owners individual devs or mailing lists, eg freebsd-rc, etc).
-Garrett